Comments on: This week in Israel: Remembering Yitzhak Rabin http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/05/this-week-in-israel-remembering-yitzhak-rabin/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:18:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben-David http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/05/this-week-in-israel-remembering-yitzhak-rabin/comment-page-1/#comment-15083 Ben-David Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:24:48 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=3546#comment-15083 Lisa did not mention that many Israeli bloggers posted recollections of the assassination that diverge from the standard summary given here. For example - the square in which the rally was held cannot physically hold more than 300,000 people - the inflation to 500,000 people is part of the mythologizing of Rabin by the left in Israel. In the year preceding Rabin's murder, that same square in Tel-Aviv had already seen several rallies of up to 250,000 people opposing the Oslo peace plan. The assassination was used to silence and demonize all dissent from the far-left's peace plan, despite the growing campaign of terror on Israel's streets. Here's some good examples from the "silent majority" of mainstream Israeli bloggers and journalists: http://biurchametz.blogspot.com/2005/09/remembering-1995-or-who-killed-oslo.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1130954358708&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://aiwac.blogspot.com/2005/11/other-side-of-coin.html Lisa did not mention that many Israeli bloggers posted recollections of the assassination that diverge from the standard summary given here. For example – the square in which the rally was held cannot physically hold more than 300,000 people – the inflation to 500,000 people is part of the mythologizing of Rabin by the left in Israel.

In the year preceding Rabin’s murder, that same square in Tel-Aviv had already seen several rallies of up to 250,000 people opposing the Oslo peace plan. The assassination was used to silence and demonize all dissent from the far-left’s peace plan, despite the growing campaign of terror on Israel’s streets.

Here’s some good examples from the “silent majority” of mainstream Israeli bloggers and journalists:

http://biurchametz.blogspot.com/2005/09/remembering-1995-or-who-killed-oslo.html

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1130954358708&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

http://aiwac.blogspot.com/2005/11/other-side-of-coin.html

]]> By: Sugar Cubes :: This Week in Palestinian Blogs :: October :: 2005 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/05/this-week-in-israel-remembering-yitzhak-rabin/comment-page-1/#comment-15022 Sugar Cubes :: This Week in Palestinian Blogs :: October :: 2005 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:24:45 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=3546#comment-15022 [...] Before you proceed, I’d like to welcome Lisa N.Goldman, the Israeli blogger and GV new author of the Israeli Blogsphere. Welcome aboard Lisa. [...] [...] Before you proceed, I’d like to welcome Lisa N.Goldman, the Israeli blogger and GV new author of the Israeli Blogsphere. Welcome aboard Lisa. [...]

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